Weekly Medtech Review Online Now

View From The Med, our weekly sideways glance at the world of medical devices has a habit of wandering off piste. This week, we stay on-message with a discussion about what the all-metal hip debacle really means is going on….the moral of the tale if you like. Who’s really to blame? And if there’s blame, should there really always be a claim?

A “Mr Angry” member of UK parliament is a sufferer of bilateral metal-on-metal resurfacing, and is sounding pretty indignant about it all. Who can blame him, but then again… is there really all that much we can do to prevent recurrences of what are undeniably very bad news stories?